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Stray Feathers. A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies October 1879

1879

In this list as in the previous one the names of species occurring elsewhere within the limits of the Empire are printed in italics while the names of those which are not yet known to occur anywhere within our limits except in the Malay Penisula are printed in roman type ; of these it will be seen that there are only six in the present list. [...] It has no trace of grey whatsoever ou the crown which with the ground color of the whole of the upper surface (except the back of the neck which is darker) is as Wagler says "fulignoso-fuscus " a regular smoky brown ; whereas the crown of canicapillus is a distinct grey sometimes browner sometimes whiter and the ground color of the whole upper surface almost black. [...] No one could for a mment doubt the distinctness of the species the white bills the white tippings to the tail the richer buff of the under surface the whiter margins to the outer primaries all hold good at every stage but in addition to this the upper surface is everywhere a richer and deeper color and the young bird instead of having the heads red as in rufulus have them and the nape [...] The Tenasserim bird is not sepaable from the Himalayan one but differs as does the Tenasserim monitiger in having the tail tippings oohraceous and it also difers from the Himalayan bird in having the ferruginous chestnut of the flanks replaced by buff and in having the rufous nuchal half collar paler and less pronounced. [...] It occurs to me that owing to the similarity of the color of the bills and of the under parts Mr.
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The Birds of the Western Half of the Malay Peninsula
151-163 A.O.H. view
Notes on the Nidification of Some Burmese Birds No. III
164-168 Eugene W. Oates view
Further Notes on the Birds of Tenasserim
168-170 A.O.H. view
The Influence of Rainfall on the Distribution of Migratory Waders and Water Birds
170-174 G. Vidal view
The Starlings of India
174-176 Allan Hume view
Notes on the List of the Birds of India
176-184 W. T. Blanford view
Reply to Mr. Blanford’s Criticisms of the List of the Birds of India
185-190 A.O.H. view
Notes on Some Tenassrrim Birds
190-197 C. T. Bingham view
849 bis.—Aegialitis Hiaticula Lin
197-201 A.O.H. view
Ceriornis Temmincki J. E. Gray?
201-204 Allan Hume view
A Contribution to the Ornithology of Nepal
204-368 J. Scully view
Birds’ Nesting on the “Eastern Narra.”
369-379 Scrope B. Doig view
Note on Horornis Fulviventer Hodgaon
379-380 W. E. Brooks view
On the Nidification of Dromas Ardeola
381-384 A.O.H. view
Further Observations on Phylloscopus Viridanus & Phylloscopus Plumbeitarsus also on Reguloides Humii
385-385 W. Edwin Brooks view
Further Additions to the Sindh Avifauna
386-389 E. A. Butler view
Description of Another New Reguloides
389-393 W. Brooks view
Novelties
394-397 Allan Hume view
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum Vol. IV
397-399 R. Sharpe view
A Monograph of the Cinnyridæ or Family of Sun-Birds
399-404 G. E. Shelley view
A History of the Birds of Ceylon
404-405 W. Legge view
Notes
406-413 Allan Hume view
Letters to the Editor
413-421 Allan Hume view

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